I apologetically interrupt your Christmas and New Year’s festivity– and mine– to post this public service announcement.
Common Core science, aka national NGSS science, is poised to pass. It will be the “truth” guide for your child and mine, without input from locals, starting this Wednesday in Utah– unless many speak up, fast.
Despite years of promises by Utah superintendents, past and present, that Utah would never jump on the common science standards wagon because of the philosophical and political mindset gap, the Utah State School Board is set to approve a memorandum of understanding this coming Wednesday that will align Utah’s science test question bank with NGSS (national, common science standards: Next Generation Science Standards.)
Below is a screenshot of the consent calendar item, available at the Board website.
Also relevant is this video, where science standards were promised by superintendents and high ranking bureaucrats –in face to face public meetings held by interrogating legislators and local school board members– never to become nationalized and common in Utah classrooms. (Posted below.) It’s a powerful documentary of Utah’s science standards’ lies. Please watch it.
It’s time to contact the board and your bulldog friends in the neighborhood and in the legislature.
The superintendent and her bureaucrats will tell you that it’s old fashioned to resist common core science standards and testing; I say that scientific intellectual freedom, and my empowerment over my own children’s locally directed education, are more real than the “modernity” of just the left wing’s version of “science”.
The real question is, as it always has been, “Who gets to decide?” Whose version of reality and science is the most reliable? Even if NGSS had it right, which it doesn’t, do you want to hand over the reins of control to NGSS, any more than you wanted to hand over the reins of math and English to Common Core 1.0?
Contact: Board@schools.utah.gov
COMMON CORE 
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